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News and stuff from BotswanaTue, 29 Jan 2019 18:32:20 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3Book – I Contain Multitudeshttp://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2018/06/book-i-contain-multitudes/
http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2018/06/book-i-contain-multitudes/#respondFri, 01 Jun 2018 18:45:15 +0000http://www.knottinbotswana.com/?p=5361I have read other books since my last post, just haven’t got round to writing anything about them yet (might also be that they are books one isn’t ready to confess to reading, yet).

I’ve been following Ed Yong for a while on Ed Yong – Twitter but wasn’t aware that he had written a proper [...]]]>

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http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2018/04/a-stroll-through-government-enclave-and-central-business-district/#respondTue, 24 Apr 2018 18:19:15 +0000http://www.knottinbotswana.com/?p=5301Zombie post brought back to life after a few months of abandonment.

This morning I found myself at the bottom end of Main Mall, Gaborone without any wheels (that’s another story) and, since the weather was favourable, decided to walk home.

Gaborone is a relatively young capital city, with almost none of it having been built before [...]]]>

http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2018/04/a-stroll-through-government-enclave-and-central-business-district/feed/0-24.6282082 25.9231472Soweto Marathon 2017http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2018/03/soweto-marathon-2017/
http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2018/03/soweto-marathon-2017/#respondFri, 23 Mar 2018 19:05:16 +0000http://www.knottinbotswana.com/?p=5304It’s 10 months since my last post (so much for the “I will write more” resolution), and the theme is the same: I ran another marathon (with another one coming up in just over a month). Yes, I’m the subject of the joke that goes “How do you know whether somebody has run a marathon?” [...]]]>http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2018/03/soweto-marathon-2017/feed/0-26.2347565 27.9826546Diacore Gaborone Marathon 2017http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2017/05/diacore-gaborone-marathon-2017/
http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2017/05/diacore-gaborone-marathon-2017/#commentsSat, 13 May 2017 18:26:16 +0000http://www.knottinbotswana.com/?p=5251Last week I ran my second Diacore Gaborone Marathon, two years after the first. I was worried that I hadn’t done enough long runs during training to perform well, compared to how I remembered training before my first attempt, but I managed to knock 9 minutes off.

Prisca and me after finishing our 10km and [...]]]>

http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2017/05/diacore-gaborone-marathon-2017/feed/1-24.6399746 25.8771801Foreign Traffic On Botswana Railshttp://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2017/05/foreign-traffic-on-botswana-rails/
http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2017/05/foreign-traffic-on-botswana-rails/#respondThu, 04 May 2017 20:19:13 +0000http://www.knottinbotswana.com/?p=5233Some time before Easter I was proceeding along the A1 between Gaborone and Francistown when I saw a train being hauled north by non-Botswana Railways locomotives, did a bit of research based on the “AR&TS” livery and found they belong to a railway service company, African Rail and Traction Services.

]]>http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2017/02/gratuitously-violent-electroswing/feed/0Book – A Short History Of Nearly Everythinghttp://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2017/02/book-a-short-history-of-nearly-everything/
http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2017/02/book-a-short-history-of-nearly-everything/#respondWed, 22 Feb 2017 19:07:49 +0000http://www.knottinbotswana.com/?p=5212Still working on the writing habit, so what better excuse for a post than to review a book.

My mum introduced me to Bill Bryson books and I read some of his travel/cultural writings way back before my emigration (and also his slots on Radio 4, if I remember correctly. I picked this one up from [...]]]>

http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2017/02/book-a-short-history-of-nearly-everything/feed/0-22.0000000 24.0000000Forging An Iron Croptop (1 hour workout)http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2017/01/gh-html/
http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2017/01/gh-html/#respondWed, 11 Jan 2017 20:25:02 +0000http://www.knottinbotswana.com/?p=5199Just discovered a cracking combination from darebee.com that can be done in about an hour (assuming a certain basic level of fitness/competency).
Crop Top Workout (2:30-3:00 per set and 2:00 rest – 15 minutes or so to complete)
Upperbody Forge (as long as it takes, use kettlebells in unbalanced positions for extra credit)
Iron Maiden (5:30-7:00 per set [...]]]>http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2017/01/gh-html/feed/0Pastorpreneurshttp://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2016/12/pastorpreneurs/
http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2016/12/pastorpreneurs/#respondSun, 18 Dec 2016 18:28:43 +0000http://www.knottinbotswana.com/?p=5189Seems like there’s a need among “prophets” and “pastors” to “own” business jets in order to better serve their victims congregations. To save me turning to Google for the debunking I’ve decided to keep notes here .

Please don’t be taken in by self-appointed preachers promising wealth, health and happiness: you get that by your own [...]]]>

http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2016/12/pastorpreneurs/feed/0Long Day To Tsabonghttp://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2016/12/long-day-to-tsabong/
http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2016/12/long-day-to-tsabong/#respondSun, 04 Dec 2016 19:59:57 +0000http://www.knottinbotswana.com/?p=5133After weeks of preparation and waiting for materials to be delivered we sent our team down to Tsabong on Tuesday with a first-fix of goods. A final delivery of R70,000 worth of PVC pipes and fittings arrived on Friday and was transhipped to a local transporter together with the remainder of the reverse osmosis membranes [...]]]>http://www.knottinbotswana.com/index.php/2016/12/long-day-to-tsabong/feed/0-26.0207787 22.4112644